The big gay shrug Sorry, enemies of gay marriage. Prop 8 or no, you've already lost



Here's a fun thing to do to calm your frazzled, saddened nerves in the wake of the CA Supreme Court's very unfortunate, but also merely annoying and karmically fleeting Proposition 8 decision:

Head on down to your local high school -- hell, make it a junior high or even an elementary -- and take yourself an informal survey. Ask the various wary, bepimpled youth of Generation Tweet what they think about those scary gay people getting married.

Ask them, in your most panicky, alarmist, Mormonified voice: Aren't they horrified at the very idea? Aren't they shocked at the very thought of two people in love having their union officially recognized and validated by the state?

Don't they know the musty ol' Bible mutters some barely coherent, mistranslated silliness about it in a single word or two written 1,500 years ago in a long dead language by acidic church elders with powermad political agendas and violently repressed libidos who nevertheless wish to instruct us all how to live and love and screw?

Please note the response. Please observe how the kids merely look at you as though you're more than a little bit deranged and prehistoric, so out of touch you might as well be Dick Cheney talking up the diesel-powered rectal thermometers he so loved back in World War I.

Watch carefully as they sigh and roll their eyes, then whip out their Nokias to text their friends about how this creepy elder just tried to convince them that the harmless, yawningly commonplace homosexuality currently saturating the popular culture all around them, from fashion to Facebook, movies to "American Idol," is not only wrong, but so wrong that the law should ban it forever because... well, no one really seems to know exactly why.

Did you see it? That big, sighing shrug of what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-you, combined with lots of who-the-hell-cares? Because that's the reaction to note most of all.

Here is what it tells you: Gay marriage is a foregone conclusion. It's a done deal. It's just a matter of time. For the next generation in particular, equal rights for gays is not even a question or a serious issue, much less a sinful hysterical conundrum that can only be answered by terrified Mormons and confused old people and inane referendums funded by same. It's just obvious, inevitable, a given.

Let us hereby be reminded, before sadness and frustration overwhelm once more: Proposition 8 and its ilk are merely the last, fitful gasps of a long-dying ideology, markers of a certain kind of sad, conservative desperation. They are the final clawings and scrapings of a reactionary worldview that attempts to outlaw and punish all it cannot, will not understand. Same as it ever was, really.

The pattern is as old as fear itself. Remember, only rarely does true progress appear as a single, momentous, Obama-like shift that reverberates across the planet and changes everything in an instant. Most frequently it comes in fits and starts and hiccups, small lurches and hard-fought battles shot through with little spitballs of hate and intolerance and heaps of misunderstanding. You know, just like now.

Evidence? Plenty. Just look at the numbers: Support for gay marriage is now the highest it's been in American history, somewhere between 42 and 48 percent nationwide. Just a few decades ago, support was down in the 20s. It's been rising steadily ever since, never once regressing.

Or, flip that data around. According to FiveThirtyEight, marriage bans like California's are losing support at a rate of about two percent a year. According to that model, more than half of U.S. states will vote against bans like the contemptible Prop 8 as soon as 2012, if not sooner. By 2024, even miserably homophobic joints like Alabama and Mississippi will be flying the rainbow flag.

You could say, then, that we are, right this minute, at the tipping point. You could say that ver

NAME ONE OF YOUR SCARS, HOW DID YOU GET IT?
on my index finger knuckle...duno how it happened, had it forever

WHAT IS ON THE WALLS IN YOUR ROOM?
notes i gotta learn

WHAT DOES YOUR CELL PHONE LOOK LIKE?
Iits black...

WHAT IS YOUR CURRENT DESKTOP PICTURE
skateboarding picture

DO YOU GET SCARED IN THE DARK
ya

WHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE PERFUME/COLOGNE
ck n2 you

WHAT KIND OF HAIR/EYE COLOR DO YOU LIKE ON THE OPPOSITE SEX?
bronle/brown, blue eyes..

COFFEE OR ENERGY DRINK?
coffeee

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF MARRIAGE?
Some day.

WOULD YOU FALL IN LOVE KNOWING THAT THE PERSON IS LEAVING?
yeah, you dont control falling for someone.

WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO TELL SOMEONE HOW MUCH THEY MEAN TO YOU?
being there for them all the time...

BLONDES OR BRUNETTES?
brunettes.

WHAT ANNOYS YOU MOST?
people who bite their nails.

YOUR WEAKNESSES:
hmmm the dark?

WHAT WAS THE LAST GIFT YOU RECIEVED?
a cool ass baseball cap last week.

EVER DONE A PRANK CALL?
yeah when we were kids.

WHAT WERE YOU DOING BEFORE YOU FILLED OUT THIS?
studying..or trying to more like it

IF YOU COULD GET PLASTIC SURGERY DONE WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE?
i wouldnt

WHAT DO YOU GET COMPLIMENTED ABOUT MOST?
eyes.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF ALCOHOL BECAME ILLEGAL?
go insane possibly.

WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY?
a holiday

HOW MANY KIDS DO YOU WANT?
havnt thought that far ahead in life

WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?
ya i saint..(i know, insane right?!)

DO YOU WISH ON STARS?
Sometimes

WHEN DID YOU LAST CRY?
watching greys anatomy

DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING?
nah, it looks like im still in national school...terrible!

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT?
chicken

ANY BAD HABITS?
smoking

IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON, WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU?
course!

HAVE YOU EVER TOLD A SECRET YOU SWORE NOT TO TELL?
ya, to protection someone

HOW DO YOU RELEASE YOUR ANGER?
dance like crazy when no ones watching..

WHERE IS YOUR HOME AWAY FROM HOME?
blue note...lol

DO YOU TRUST OTHERS EASILY?
at times, but its all bout learning by mistakes

WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE TOY AS A CHILD?
teen age mutant ninja turtles. they were the deadly

HOW MANY NUMBERS ARE IN YOUR CELL PHONE?
alot!

DO YOU USE SARCASM?
no not all, lol

WHAT DO YOU LOOK FOR IN A GUY/GIRl?
fun, humor, honesty...not alot really

WHAT IS THE MOST PAIN YOU HAVE EVER EXPERIENCED?
when i got my last piercing

DO YOU UN-TIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF?
Nope

WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU SPILLED?
coffee, the morning

WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE COLOUR?
red

HOW MANY WISDOM TEETH DO YOU HAVE?
just getting em now

DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS?
yWhatever

LAST THING YOU ATE?
waffles

LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE?
neil

FAVORITE THOUGHT PROVOKING SONG?
Fitzcarraldo

FAVORITE THING TO HATE:
rain

WHAT IS YOUR HAIR COLOR?
black

EYE COLOR?
Brown

DO YOU WEAR GLASSES?
sometimes

SIBLINGs?
ya

DO YOU LIKE SUSHi?
oh ya!

LAST THING YOU WATCHED?
being erica

IS ANYONE IN LOVE WITH YOU?
erm...duno

DO U STILL TALK TO THE PERSON YOU HAD UR FIRST KISS WITH?
No

WHATS THE BEST THING ABOUT UR JOB?
that i dont havt one

DO U HAVE A CRUSH ON MORE THAN ONE PERSON RIGHT NOW?
yep...hehe

ARE U AGAINST SAME SEX MARRIAGE?
no .

WOULD U VOTE FOR BUSH?
nope

WHERE ARE U GOING ON HOILDAY NEXT?
amsterdam, without a doubt

HAVE U KISSED ANY OF UR BEBO FRIENDS?
yeah, alot!
HAVE U DONE MORE THAN KISS ANY OF UR BEBO FRIENDS?
Yeah

ARE MOST OF UR FRIENDS GUYS OR GIRLS?
girls

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